Changing Boundaries--Shifting Identities: Strategic Interventions to Enhance the Future of Educational Research in Australia

Autor/inn/en	Harrison, Neil; Bennett, Sue; Bennett, Dawn; Bobis, Janette; Chan, Philip; Seddon, Terri; Shore, Sue
Titel	Changing Boundaries--Shifting Identities: Strategic Interventions to Enhance the Future of Educational Research in Australia
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 40 (2013) 4, S.493-507 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-013-0107-y
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Research; Capacity Building; Evaluation Methods; Educational History; Scholarship; Educational Trends; Accountability; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Scholarships; Stipendium; Bildungsentwicklung; Verantwortung; Australien
Abstract	This paper reflects on the geography of Australian educational research in the context of the ERA 2010 and 2012 assessments results. These results reflect significant changes to the nature of educational research over the past decades, where this research is conducted and by whom. We recap the historical changes to the formation of educational institutions and their impact on research outputs to demonstrate that interdisciplinary work is growing in a context where there has been a shift in research outputs away from the traditional area of school education. The ERA results demonstrate a high level of research activity in the intersections between previously distinct discipline areas, particularly in the scholarship of teaching and learning. The future of ERA itself is addressed in order to propose interventions that might make a difference to an ecology that is anchored in traditions and tends towards inertia. Finally, we argue that efforts by universities to build research capacity are likely to continue to be competitive, to focus on the individual rather than on departments and schools, and to be subject to an increasingly pervasive culture of accountability. Against this discourse of accountability, and an accompanying loss in autonomy and creative "think-time", we propose that academics in education actively engage in a community of research. We conclude with interventions designed to build a high-quality, analytical and theoretically intensive research culture to underscore educational research in Australia. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10